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GOP haven't been moderate since before Nixon.
What positions do you consider moderate then? If there were to be a moderate conservative party, what policies would they support?
Here’s some moderate positions:
You either build or destroy. What has Trump and the MAGA crowd actually built? What can they point to and say “We did that for America, not just our voting bloc” Democrats suffer from voter prioritization as well, but bridges and clean air/water help everyone.
Most of that seems like what Nikki Haley supports anyways. She admits that Trump lost in 2020, she hasn't said anything terribly extreme on immigration (not that the president is even the final say in domestic matters), she obviously supports our allies as she used to be our rep for the UN, and she doesn't do anything about how bad our education system is just like every other politician.
Actually wanting to conserve things, like the environment or peoples general well-being. Taking responsibility for their actions, and acknowledging failures. Fiscal responsibility. Secularism, maybe not personally but at least professionally.
Basically not being regressive douchebags who use perceived and mimicked "divine right" to trick people into thinking they have to vote for the GOP or the devil will eat their souls.
Edit: one last thing, the ability to compromise and work with their compatriots with differing political alignments for the betterment of the people they serve.
Nixon was more moderate than a lot of Dems, in some ways. Environment, and iirc, health policy, until he drank the Kaiser-Garfield Koolade.